Tim Burton explains why Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin won’t be appearing in the Beetlejuice sequel
“I wasn’t interested in just checking boxes,” the filmmaker of “Beetlejuice” states.
No matter how many times you repeat their names, Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis won’t show up in Beetlejuice. The follow-up to Tim Burton’s 1988 horror comedy, Beetlejuice.
In the original film, 66-year-old Baldwin and 68-year-old Davis portrayed Connecticut residents Adam and Barbara Maitland, who drive off a bridge while swerving to avoid hitting a dog, and end up as ghosts.
Their souls are confined to the quaint home they shared, which is acquired by the peculiar Deetz family, which consists of Charles (Jeffrey Jones), Lydia (Winona Ryder), and Delia (Catherine O’Hara), Charles’s wife.
The Maitlands, unwilling to live in the same home as the Deetzes, resort to using the vulgar and obscene demon Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton) to frighten the newcomers away.
Baldwin and Davis are not among the many original cast members who make a comeback in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, including Keaton, Ryder, and O’Hara.The Maitlands’ discovery of a “loophole” that let them escape the house where they were imprisoned is described in the sequel.
In contrast, Burton was eager to start a brand-new narrative that was unrelated to the Maitlands. “I believe the issue was that, personally, I wasn’t content to simply check boxes. I was concentrating on something else, so even though they were such a wonderful, essential element of the first one,” he says to PEOPLE.
